I haven't got a phobia about t-storms, but I don't like being woken by "seeing" a flash of lightning through my eyelids when asleep. This because I WAS scared of them when I was little, and used to imagine a wizened, very scary old man's face every time the lightning flashed. My Mum was v scared of them, as her house was hit by a thunderbolt when she was a child, and I picked up her tension. I still would not go out in a storm, but enjoy watching them. My 3 sons, brought up by me, love them! Ali